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Ill  EAST  NINTH  STREET. 

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Rev.  and  dear  Sir  : 

The  Indian  Commission,  recently  appointed  by  authority  of  the  General  Convention,  and  charged 
with  the  conduct  of  Missions  to  American  Indians,  is  constrained  to  claim,  through  its  Executive  Commit- 
tee, the  assistance  of  each  Parochial  Minister  in  the  Church.  The  aid  of  the  pulpit  is  necessary  to  remove 
the  prevalent  indifference  towards  Missions  to  our  home  heathen,  and  to  incite  all  who  profess  and  call 
themselves  Christians  to  assist  in  saving  our  Indians  by  prayer  and  by  liberal  offerings  of  personal  service 
and  of  money.  In  the  furtherance  of  the  great  work  committed  to  its  care,  the  Commission  urgently  pleads 
with  all  Clergymen  in  charge  of  Parishes  to  preach  a sermon  on  Missions  to  Indians  at  some  early  day. 
If  it  is  not  possible  to  take  up  a general  collection  for  this  object,  it  is  hoped  that  individual  contributions 
will  be  solicited  and  the  formation  of  Parochial  Organizations  promoted.  As  some  Rectors  may  not  be 
familiar  with  the  present  condition  and  prospects  of  our  Missions  to  Indians,  a condensed  summary  of  facts 
and  arguments  is  submitted,  to  aid  in  the  preparation  of  a sermon,  or  for  delivery  in  its  present  form. 
That  this  plea  for  Missions  to  Indians  may  have  freshness  in  the  pulpit,  the  request  is  made  that  it  may 
not  be  published  in  any  other  way. 

By  order  of  the  Executive  Committee, 

HEM  AN  DYER, 

Chairman. 


The  undersigned,  having  Episcopal  jurisdiction  over  the  existing  Indian  Missions,  affectionately  urge 
upon  all  the  Parochial  Clergy  of  the  Church  a prompt  compliance  with  the  reasonable  request  of  the 
Executive  Committee,  as,  in  the  present  exigency,  the  whole  Church  should  come  forward  to  aid  in 
Christianizing  our  home  heathen. 

H.  B.  WHIPPLE, 

Bishop  of  Mmnesota. 

R.  H.  CLARKSON, 

Bishop  of  Nebraska. 

W.  E.  ARMITAGE, 

Bishop  of  Wisconsin. 


To  the  Clerical  Friends  of  Indian  Missions. 

Secretary  of  the  Indian  Co^nmission  will  be  glad  to  visit  Parishes 
(not  too  remote)  where  this  Sermon  is  tised,  and  present  to  Congregations  a 
statemeyit^  illustrated  with  maps,  &c.,  showing  the  latest  aspect  oj  the  work, 
and  personal  details  of  interest,  either  as  a supplement  to  the  discourse,  or  a 
separate  exhibit,  as  our  friends  may  prefer.  Please  address, 

E.  C KEMBLE,  Secretary, 

2 2 Bible  House,  New  York. 


A Plea  for  Missions  to  Indians. 


St.  Matthew,  chap,  xxviii.,  ver.  i8,  19,  20  : “And  Jesus  came  and  spake  unto  them,  saying,  All 
power  is  given  unto  Me  in  heaven  and  in  earth.  Go  ye  therefore,  and  teach  all  nations,  baptizing  them  in 
the  Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost  : teaching  them  to  observe  all  things 
whatsoever  I have  commanded  you  : and,  lo,  I am  with  you  alway,  even  unto  the  end  of  the  world. 
Amen.  ” 

Tiie-se:  closing  words  of  St.  Matthew’s  Gospel  pledge  the  power  of  onr  Divine  Lord 
to  the  Christian  Church,  that  it  may  etfectually  disciple  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men. 
As  this  Church  claims  the  highest  Divine  authority,  its  members  are  thereby  obligated 
to  manifest  the  jiresence  of  the  spirit  of  Christ  by  the  most  active  Missionary  life. 
Although  the  progress  of  Christianity  seems  to  be  slow,  yet  it  is  encouraging  to  know 
that  the  Gospel  is  being  preached  and  taught  by  bur  Church,  with  increasing  zeal  and 
efliciency,  to  the  hitherto  neglected  classes  in  our  cities,  and  that  it  is  being  illustrated 
and  made  acceptable  to  the  indifferent  and  to  the  prejudiced  by  works  of  mercy  wrought 
in  Christ's  name.  The  Mission  life  of  the  Church  is  evidently  becoming  more  effective, 
for  the  poor  and  suffering,  even  the  most  abject,  are,  to  a greater  extent  than  hitherto, 
sought  out,  visited,  spiritually  nourished,  and  gathered  into  the  Christian  fold.  Through 
such  means,  faith  in  the  power  and  presence  of  Christ  in  His  Church  continues  to 
strengthen,  as  was  seen  at  the  last  General  Convention,  when  it  was  determined  to  put 
forth  systematic  and  persistent  efforts  to  reveal  Him  and  His  salvation  to  our  long- 
neglected  Indians. 

The  few  zealous  disciples  who  were  toiling  in  this  field  were  cheered  by  the  an- 
nouncement t hat  this  heathen  people,  the  original  possessors  of  our  whole  country,  were 
to  receive  the  consideration  of  the  entire  Church  in  our  land  ; and  surely  the  memory  of 
past  neglects  should  quicken  our  zeal  for  their  salvation.  When  a people,  in  full  pos- 
session of  God’s  revealed  Word,  enter  upon  the  occupation  of  a country  inhabited  by 
heathen,  they  are  bound  to  illustrate  to  their  less  favoured  brethren  the  beauty  of  holi- 
ness, and  to  teach  them  from  the  Book  of  Life.  This  obligation  has,  in  the  case  under 
consideration,  been  intensified,  and  its  binding  force  on  the  Church  increased  ; for. 


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instead  of  giving  the  Gospel  to  these  Indians,  this  so-called  Christian  people  has  intro- 
duced among  them  immorality  and  diseases  before  unknown  to  them,  and  wea.kened  the 
restraining  intiiiences  of  their  superstitious  rites  without  giving  them  the  benetits  of  our 
holy  Religion.  What  so  damaging  to  Christianity,  so  disheartening  to  those  engaged  in 
foreign  Missions,  and  so  well  calculated  to  till  the  mind  of  heathen  in  otlier  lands  with 
unbelief  in  the  true  Religion,  as  the  demoralization  and  deterioration  of  a heathen 
people  by  intercourse  with  those  who  profess  and  call  themselves  Christians.  That 
most  of  the  Indians  in  the  Cnited  States  have  degenerated  in  proportion  to  their  inter- 
course with  white  people,  is  admitted  by  all  intelligent  observers,  and  it  is  therefore 
asserted  that  Indians  are  incapable  of  being  civilized  or  benefited  by  Christianity,  and 
consequently  that  they  are  doomed  to  perish.  This  unsound  and  therefore  unfair  rea- 
soning is  natural  to  those  who  are  corrupting  Indians  and  exciting  them  to  hostility,  that 
they  may  take  possession  of  all  their  land  ; and  it  is  also  natural  that  such  unprincipled 
men  should  try  to  ])opularize  this  pernicious  idea  ; hence  the  importance  of  considering 
the  subject  under  the  following  heads  : 

First.  Can  American  Indians  be  civilized  now  ? 

Second.  Are  they  ready  to  receive  and  to  |)rotit  by  Christianity 

Third.  What  is  the  present  duty  of  otir  Church  towards  Indians? 

First.  Can  American  Indians  be  civilized  now  ? 

It  is  not  i)r(>i)Osed  to  consider  wliether  the  civilization  of  our  Indians  was  possible 
when  they  were  free  to  roam  over  an  illimitable  space,  and  when  the  fields  and  woods 
and  waters  supplied  all  their  Avants  ; or  when  by  force  or  fraud  they  were  being  driven 
from  the  hunting  grounds  and  the  graves  of  their  fathers,  by  a civilized  people  ; or  when 
their  supply  of  food  and  raiment  was  being  curtailed  by  the  progress  of  civilization  ; 
or  when  their  annuities  were  being  mercilessly  filched  from  them  by  men  respected  in 
civilized  society — for  ])lundering  Indians  was  not  considered  criminal ; or  when  this 
Government  was  inciting  Indians  to  fight  against  their  brethren  of  other  tribes,  perjDet- 
iiating  the  deadly  feuds  which,  with  white  men’s  vices  and  diseases,  have  reduced  the 
Indian  population  of  this  country.  If,  under  such  circumstances,  Indians  were  slow  to 
realize  the  advantages  of  civilization,  is  it  to  be  wondered  at  ? and  ought  we  to  despise 
men  who  prefer  death  to  slavery  ? 

The  question  is.  Can  American  Indians  be  civilized  now,  vrlieii  the  Government  has 
reformed  its  Indian  service  ; when  it  is  exerting  all  its  power  to  be  just  and  even  merciful 
to  Indians  ; when  it  is  placing  them  on  Reservations  and  assuring  to  them  a permanent 
title  to  farms  ; when  it  has  recognized  the  principle  that  a civilized  people,  depriving  an 
uncivilized  people  of  their  natural  supply  of  food  and  raiment,  is  under  an  obligation 
to  supply  the  wants  of  the  uncivilized,  until  they  can  be  incited  to  self-sujiport ; and 
when  it  is  lending  its  power  to  drive  from  Indian  Reservations  all  immoral  and  dishonest 


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persons,  and  has  actually  placed  these  permanent  homes  of  the  Indians  under  the  con- 
trol of  the  religious  bodies  of  the  land  % 

This  beneficial  change  has  been  so  recent  that  its  full  effects  are  not  yet  visible  ; but, 
as  soon  as  the  Indian  was  inspii’ed  with  hopefulness,  his  improvement  became  more 
rapid  than  the  most  sanguine  of  his  friends  anticipated.  Practical  illustrations  of  their 
civilization  abound  in  the  Indian  Territory,  where  whole  tribes  that  once  despised  all 
favouring  influences,  are  now  successful  herdsmen  and  industrious  farmers  and  mechanics, 
and  have  adopted  the  educational  system  and  the  habits  of  civilized  } eople.  Our 
(jliurch  is,  however,  more  immediately  interested  in  the  capacity  for  civilization  of  the 
(several  tribes  of  Dakotas  and  the  Ponkas,  placed  by  the  United  States  Government 
under  the  care  of  our  Missionary  organizations,  and  in  the  Chippewa  and  Oneida  In- 
dians of  Minnesota  and  Wisconsin,  where  we  have  schools  and  missions.  Bishops,  Pres- 
l)yters,  and  lay  members  of  our  Church,  and  other  visitors  to  these  Reservations,  testify 
that  all  of  the  Indians  who  are  settled  on  arable  land  are  progressing  satisfactorily  in 
civilization,  because,  through  Christian  influences,  labour  has  been  dignified,  and  the 
chief  obstacle  to  progress  thus  removed.  The  ca})acity  and  disposition  of  these  Indians 
for  civilization  liave  been  severely  tested  ; for,  instead  of  passing  them  through  the  inter- 
mediate stage  of  herdsmen,  they  are  obliged  to  abandon  the  honour  and  the  excitement 
of  the  war-path  and  the  chase,  and,  frecpiently  with  very  imperfect  implements,  to  culti- 
rah^  a soil  which  too  often  gives  inadecpiate  returns,  because  subject  to  drought  and  the 
1‘avages  of  grasslioppers.  Even  thus  embarrassed,  many  Indians  who  were  once  the 
fiercest  warriors  or  the  wisest  chiefs  are  now  the  most  successful  cultivators  of  the  soil 
and  tlie  fartliest  advanced  in  civilization.  The  process  is  often  very  gradual.  They 
begin  by  dignifying  the  use  of  the  plough  as  manly,  and  oblige  their  women  to  use  the 
hoe,  and  then  they  gradually  learn  to  engage  in  all  manual  occupations,  'fhese  Indians 
are  now  becoming  deeply  impressed  with  the  belief  that  a civilization  like  that  of  good 
white  people  is  their  only  hope  ; therefore  many  of  them  plead  for  teachers  and  for 
industrial  schools  that  they  and  their  children  may  accxnire  a x>ractical  knowledge  of  all 
that  will  imi^rove  their  condition.  The  progress  of  the  large  tribe  of  Yankton  Dakotas 
within  three  years  has  been  most  satisfactory.  Many  of  them  have  built  log-houses, 
and  are  introducing  into  them  the  ai^x^liances  of  civilized  life.  Polygamy  is  being  aban- 
doned ; and  woman,  instead  of  being  the  slave  of  man,  is,  with  the  Yanktons,  beconiing 
his  intelligent  partner.  Adults  as  well  as  children  attend  school,  and  manifest  much 
fliligence  in  acquiring  the  English  language,  as  well  as  in  learning  to  read  and  write  in 
the  Dakota  dialect.  The  chiefs  of  this  tribe  have  freely  offered  their  first-born  sons  to  be 
thoroughly  educated  on  the  Reservation  or  sent  to  college,  at  the  discretion* of  their  Mis- 
sionary. Bishop  Clarkson  thus  writes  of  two  of  them  who  were  sent  to  the  college  at 
Nebraska  City  : “In  the  closing  exercises  of  the  school  our  two  Indian  young  men, 

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and  applause  of  the  audience.  They  are  preparing  for  the  holy  ministry,  and  intend,  if 
God  spares  their  lives,  to  be  Missionaries  to  their  own  people.  Both  of  them  took  the 
college  prizes  for  ‘ Sacred  Studies,’  and  the  President  and  Faculty  commend  them  as 
models  and  examples  to  all  the  scholars,  for  devotedness,  reverence,  and  Christian  con- 
duct.” 

The  effect  upon  these  lads  was  so  apjjarent  that  a young  Yankton  chief,  whose  baud 
has  made  the  least  progress,  has  determined  to  go  to  the  same  college,  that  he  may  be 
theb  etter  prepared  to  perform  his  duty  to  his  people. 

The  entire  tribe  of  Santee  Dakotas  has  progressed  so  far  that  they  have  the  respect 
of  their  white  neighbours,  with  whom  they  will  compare  favourably  in  temperance,  in 
virtue,  and  in  industry.  The  chiefs  of  several  powerful  tribes  of  Dakotas  not  j^et  fully 
settled  on  Reservations,  have  pledged  themselves  to  become  leaders  in  the  w'ork  of  civ- 
ilization as  soon  as  their  people  are  permanently  located.  The  fact  that  American 
Indians,  when  favourably  located  on  permanent  Reservations,  can  be  civilized  with  the 
aid  of  Christian  influences,  is  capable  of  demonsti’ation,  even  to  the  most  sceptical ; 
although  it  must  be  admitted  that  patience  and  perseverance  will  be  required  before  so 
l adical  a change  can  be  wrought  in  all  of  those  committed  to  our  care. 

Second.  Are  they  ready  to  receive  and  profit  by  Christianity  ? 

In  answer  to  earnest  prayers  now  being  ottered  in  the  fulness  of  faith,  the  Holy 
Sim  HIT  is  evidently  making  the  Indians  under  the  care  of  our  Church  increasingly  ready 
to  receive  and  profit  by  Christianity.  The  Oneidas  of  Wisconsin  are  craving  more  Gospel 
light  and  instruction.  The  Chippewas  on  the  White  Earth  Reservation  in  Minnesota 
have  so  fully  profited  by  the  Christian  instruction  of  their  Indian  Presbyter,  that  most  of 
them  have  abandoned  the  war-path,  been  willingly  shorn  of  their  scalp-locks,  and  clothed 
in  the  garments  of  civilization.  Their  Bishop  and  a large  number  of  Presbyters  and  lay 
jieople  testify  that  these  Indians  have  received  and  profited  by  Christianity.  Other 
tribes  of  Chippewas,  seeing  the  beneficial  change  wrought  in  the  Indians  on  this 
Reservation,  are,  with  tears  in  their  eyes,  earnestly  pleading  that  Christian  Ministers 
and  teachers  may  be  sent  to  them  also,  as  the  only  hope  of  their  people. 

The  Ponkas  were  for  years  pleading  for  Christian  Ministers,  and  when  at  length 
one  was  sent  to  them,  they  received  him  cordially,  and  are  evidently  improving  under 
his  ministrations.  In  a general  Council  recently  held  with  the  Ponka  Indians,  their 
principal  war  chiefs  spoke  of  this  Missionary  and  of  his  woman  helper  in  terms  of  the 
highest  commendation.  These  Indians  told  of  the  merciful  acts  performed  by  their 
sympathizing  Christian  friends  to  the  sick  and  sorrowing  ones,  showing  how,  through 
such  agencies,  their  hearts  have  been  prepared  to  respond  to  the  claims  of  our  holy 
Religion. 

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other  white  men,  who  came  to  them  in  former  times,  almost  invariably  did  them  harm. 

That  the  Santee  and  Yankton  Dakotas  were  ready  to  receive  and  prolit  by  Christi- 
anity, has  been  testified  to  by  intelligent  eye-witnesses,  some  of  whom  were  so  sceptical 
before  they  had  examined  for  themselves,  that  their  testimony  may  be  considered  con- 
clnsive.  Wapashaw,  the  head  chief  of  the  Santees,  the  fourth  in  the  succession  of 
chieftains,  is  an  intelligent,  firm,  and  zealous  Christian,  and  his  first-born  son  is  the 
leadei-  of  the  band  of  Church  Catechists.  The  five  members  of  this  tribe  who  have 
€-ntered  the  sacred  Ministry  evinced  simple  faith  in  Christ,  and  a most  ardent  and  intel- 
ligent zeal  for  the  salvation  of  their  brethren.  (Jne  of  them  asked  why  the  Gospel  net 
should  not  b(‘  extended  until  it  encircled  the  whole  Dakota  nation.  The  benefits  of 
(diristianity  to  the  Santees  were  so  a])parent  that  their  neighbours,  the  Yanktons,  were 
still  more  ready  to  receive  it.  The  progress  of  our  holy  Religion  among  this  tribe,  even 
before  their  Minister  coidd  preach  in  their  language,  was  so  rapid  that  it  seemed  like  the 
recurrence  of  Pentecostal  times.  The  Lower  Brulos,  the  Yanktonnais,  and  leading  men 
of  the  tribes  on  our  Cheyenne  Reservation  have  given  unmistakable  evidences  of  their 
readiness  to  receive  theGosi)el.  Even  the  warlike  Ogallallas  and  Upper  Brule  Dakotas, 
have,  through  theii-  chiefs  and  warriors,  expressed  their  readiness  to  welcome  Christian 
^linisters.  Many  hearts  beat  with  a strange  emotion,  and  many  ej'es  were  suffused  with 
teais  vhen  the  noted  war  chiefs  of  these  tribes  for  the  first  time  entered  a Christian 
rhuich,  and  untreated  that  their  ])(H>])le  might  be  taught  from  the  Book  of  the  Great 
SpiRn . 

Red  Cloud's  ])h*a,  made  at  a church  in  Brooklyn,  was  responded  to  by  a pledge 
from  a Christian  man  that  the  Ogallallas  shoidd  have  a church  as  soon  as  they  were 
settled  on  their  Reservation.  Spotted  Tail,  the  chief  of  the  Upper  Brules,  spoke  in 
Philadel])hia  for  his  large  delegation,  and  a cultivated  Russian  ladjg  then  present  in  the 
church,  was  moved  by  the  Holy  Spirit  to  offer  herself  as  a Missionary  to  our  Indians 
She  is  already  in  the  field.  The  lueparation  of  the  hearts  of  the  Indians,  under  the 
<me  of  this  Church,  to  receive  the  Gospel,  is  now  so  a})parent  that  many  a breast  has 
btMui  inspired  with  a faith  that  incites  to  action. 

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increasing  fervour,  for  the  Chief  Ruler  of  this  nation,  and  in  response  thereto  he  claimed 
the  help  of  our  Missionary  societies  to  aid  the  Government  in  civilizing  and  Christianizing 
the  Indians.  Although  the  acceptance  of  this  offer  to  place  certain  tribes  under  our  care 
may  not  have  increased  the  obligation  of  the  Church  to  teach  and  to  disciple  our  home 
heathen,  yet  it  gives  a definiteness  to  this  work,  and  a facility  in  its  performance,  which 
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action.  The  successes  of  our  Missions  to  Indians  have  shown  the  peculiar  fitness  of  the 
principles  and  the  practices  of  this  Church  for  aggressiveness  and  for  permanency  in 
this  department  of  Missionary  work. 

Our  Common  Prayer  not  only  inclines  the  Missionary  to  teach  Indians  to  pray,  as 
our  Lord  taught  his  first  disciples,  but  enables  him  to  pray  Avith  them  in  their  mother 
tongue,  and  to  conduct  public  Services,  long  before  he  can  speak  their  language  fluently. 
Oui-  orderly  mode  of  conducting  public  worshij)  deeply  impresses  the  reverent  Indian, 
who  is  further  aided  in  being  permanently  weaned  from  his  time-honoured  superstitious 
rites  by  the  Scriptural  illustrations  of  important  Christian  doctrines  in  our  Services. 

Surely  the  present  duty  of  this  Church  towards  Indians  is  indicated  by  the  special 
call  of  God  through  the  Chief  Ruler  of  the  nation,  by  the  ripeness  of  the  field,  by  the 
call  of  these  heathen  that  we  should  come  over  and  helj)  them,  by  successes  already 
achieved,  and  by  a peculiar  fitness  for  the  work. 

The  Church  has  therefore  organized  a Commission,  comprising  fifty  ministers  and 
laymen,  to  whom  is  committed  the  extension  and  supervision  of  Indian  Missions.  As 
that  Commission  is  wholly  dependent  on  voluntary  contributions,  it  will  be  powerless  to 
do  its  whole  duty  unless  it  receives  the  j>rayers  and  the  offerings  of  all.  It  needs  the 
pulpit  as  well  as  the  press,  and  also  parochial  organizations  to  promote  specific  prayer 
and  systematic  pecuniary  offerings. 

A few  Churchmen,  deeply  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  (hiRiST,  long  yearned  and 
laboured  for  the  salvation  of  Indians,  and  the  same  spirit  that  actuated  them  is  now 
rapidly  extending.  The  revered  Bishop  Kemper,  with  an  earnestness  and  forecast  in 
which  very  few  shared,  hastened  on  the  coming  of  this  time.  Bishop  Whipple,  with  his 
fearless,  fiery  zeal,  like  that  of  the  Baptist,  has  aided  in  ushering  it  in.  Others  were 
also  labouring  in  faith  through  a veiy  dark  period,  and  are  now  cheered  with  hoj)e  for 
the  Indian.  One  Indian  Presbyter,  in  the  midst  of  discouragements,  toiled  on  in  Min- 
nesota for  many  years,  as  seeing  Him  that  is  invisible,  his  Bishop  being  almost  his  only 
human  helper.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Hinman  fought  single-handed  for  nearly  ten  years  ; and 
though  no  white  Ministers  came  to  his  assistance,  God  laised  up  five  Indian  Ministers 
and  a large  body  of  Catechists  to  assist  in  extending  and  perfecting  his  work.  Then  the 
day  began  to  dawn,  and,  as  an  earnest  of  good  things  to  come,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Cook  was 
sent  of  God  to  care  for  the  Yanktons.  He  also  has  Indian  helpers,  who,  in  due  time, 
will  doubtless  enter  the  sacred  ministiy.  The  day-dawn  brightens  ; for  during  the  last 
year  the  Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia  furnished  one  zealous  Missionary  to  the 
Ponkas,  and  this  season,  since  the  Indian  Commission  was  organized,  the  Berkeley 
Divinity  School  of  Connecticut  has  sent  to  the  Dakotas  three  of  its  choicest  graduates, 
and  other  of  its  students  seem  to  be  ready  for  a like  Mission  work. 

Ten  ministering  women  are  teaching  the  Indians,  and  otherwise  helping  our  Mission- 
aries, by  self-denying  acts  of  mercy— four  of  them  sent  from  the  Bishop  Potter  Memorial 
Ho\ise,  of  Philadelphia. 


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This  recital  shows  a rapidly  increasing  zeal  in  the  cause,  and  indicates  faith,  on  the 
part  of  the  Indian  Commission,  that  the  Church  will  sustain  it  in  extending  this  depart- 
ment of  work. 

Tlie  Executive  Committee  of  the  Commission  have,  from  time  to  time,  been  cheered 
by  hearing  of  little  parochial  organizations,  comprising  children  as  well  as  adults, 
formed  to  promote  prayer  for  Indians,  and  also  to  aid  our  Missionaries  by  liberal  oflfer- 
ings  of  time  and  money.  If  such  organizations  are  formed  in  every  Parish,  our  Indians 
can  be  saved,  and  a rich  spiritual  blessing  will  descend  on  the  workers  and  on  the 
Parishes  with  which  they  are  connected.  Their  united  prayers  will  be  invaluable  helps 
in  extending  from  heart  to  heart,  as  well  as  from  head  to  head,  the  specific  details  as  they 
come  freshly  from  our  Mission  fields.  How  natural  is  it  that  a Christian  woman’s  heart 
should  be  deepl}^  moved  when  she  hears  of  special  instances  of  the  degradation  of  her 
sisters,  even  below  the  brute,  by  the  heathen  polygamy  practised  in  our  land  ! What 
joy  is  imparted  when  the  tidings  come  that,  mainly  through  the  ministries  of  Christian 
women,  the  wife  is  being  lifted  to  the  true  position  for  which  God  created  her,  and  that  even 
the  husband  has  realized  the  wrongs  of  his  past  life ! Many  of  us  have  been  doubly 
stirred  up  by  the  details  of  barbarous  rites  practised  by  the  Indians , within  sight  of 
Christian  churches.  AVe  then  realize  that  we  have  wronged  our  brethren  by  witiihold- 
ing  from  them  the  Gospel  light  which  has  been  entrusted  to  us,  and  we  feel  rebuked  for 
our  spiritual  inertness  by  the  self-sacrificing  devotion  of  these  Indians  to  their  super- 
stitions rites.  Men  in  the  prime  of  life,  under  the  belief  that  acts  of  self-sacrifice  will' 
appease  the  Great  Spirit,  are  tied  to  the  sun-dance  pole  by  thongs  of  hide  thrust  under 
the  muscles  of  the  breast,  and  then,  without  nourishment  of  any  kind,  dance  day  after 
day,  looking  directly  at  the  sun.  When  men  thus  scarred  have  been  taught  from  God’s 
Book  to  look  to  the  Sun  of  Righteousness,  they  have  manifested  a like  zeal  in  enlight- 
ening their  bretliren  with  the  true  “Light  of  the  world,”  shaming  laggard  Christians 
into  an  increase  of  devotion. 

We  who  have  so  often  been  comforted,  at  the  death  of  our  loved  ones,  by  the  assur- 
ance that  our  Blessed  Lord  has  received  their  spirit,  cannot  be  unmoved  when  we  hear 
that  our  Indian  brethren  and  sisters  cut  themselves  and  howl  piteously,  day  and  night, 
because  their  loved  ones  have  died  and  gone  to  the  utter  darkness  of  their  spirit  land. 
Tlie  frantic  efforts  of  these  deluded  heathen  to  restore  dead  bodies  to  life  are  usually 
hid  from  the  white  man  by  an  impenetrable  veil.  A few  weeks  since  the  veil  was 
lifted  before  one  of  our  ministering  women,  who,  though  in  a new  and  untried  field,  had 
in  a very  few  days  touched  the  heart  of  a heathen  conjurer  by  acts  of  mercy.  She  saw 
their  fiendish  efforts  to  affright  an  evil  spirit,  which  they  imagined  had  held  a little  girl 
in  the  bondage  of  death  for  two  days.  These  conjurers,  or  medicine-men,  as  they  are 
called,  beat  three  or  four  drums  violently,  hooted  and  screamed,  and  rang  a bell  inces- 
santly,  taking  the  girl  in  and  out  of  the  tent,  putting  a pipe  in  her  mouth,  smoking  in 


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her  face,  spitting  on  lier,  and  dancing  with  her,  until  even  an  evil  spirit  would  have 
been  driven  away,  if  she  had,  as  they  supposed,  been  possessed  of  the  devil. 

Let  us  turn  from  this  revolting  scene  to  an  Indian’s  tent  on  another  Reservation 
where  we  have  a Christian  Mission.  A little  girl  of  about  the  same  age  as  the  one  just 
described,  having  been  taught  of  Goi>,  was  baptized  in  the  Name  of  the  F'ather,  and 
of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  How  her  eyes  glistened  and  face  lit  up  when  our 
ministering  women  visited  her  during  a sickness  that  was  unto  death.  God’s  Word 
was  precious  to  her,  and  prayer  enabled  her  to  lay  a firmer  and  still  firmer  hold  on  her 
Lokd.  Being  dead  she  speaketh,  foi-  she  loved  to  tell  others  of  Jesus,  and  her  old 
grandmother  sought  Christian  Baptism,  infiuenced  by  the  teachings  of  this  little  one. 
Let  us  no  longer  excuse  ourselves  with  a false  belief  that  we  are  free  from  a responsi- 
bility which  God  has  evidently  laid  upon  us. 


4 


PRAYERS  FOR  INDIAN  MISSIONS. 


Prayer  set  forth  by  Bishop  Clarkson,  by  request,  for  use  at  meetings  of  Committees,  and  on  Thursdays,  by  alt 

the  friends  of  the  Indians. 

^^^LldlGHTY  and  most  merciful  God,  the  Father  of  the  friendless  and  the  Helper  of 
the  helpless,  have  pity,  we  beseech  Thee,  upon  the  Indian  tribes  who  dwell  in 
this  our  land.  Send  to  them  the  light  and  comfort  of  Thy  Holy  Gospel.  Bless  all  the 
means  used  to  bring  them  to  the  knowledge  of  Thy  dear  Son,  Who  died  for  the  salva- 
tion of  all  men.  Guide  with  Thy  Spirit,  guard  with  Thy  power,  sustain  with  Thy 
love,  all  those  who  minister  to  them  in  spiritual  things  and  bear  to  them  the  tidings  of 
redemption.  Stir  uj)  the  hearts  of  all  who  profess  and  call  themselves  Christians,  to 
prayer  and  deeds  of  mercy  in  behalf  of  this  perishing  race.  Give  to  our  rulers  a sense 
of  honour,  truth,  and  justice  in  all  their  dealings  with  them,  and  fill  this  whole  nation 
with  compassion  for  this  poor  and  scattered  people  ; “and  so  fetch  them  home.  Blessed 
Lord,  to  TI13'  flock,  that  thej^  may  be  saved  among  the  remnant  of  true  Israelites,  and 
be  made  one  fold  under  one  Shepherd.”  All  of  which  we  ask  through  Jesus  Christ 
our  Lord.  Amen. 


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